The internal capsule is an area of white matter in the brain that separates the caudate nucleus and the thalamus from the putamen and the globus pallidus. The internal capsule contains both ascending and descending axons.
It consists of axonal fibres that run between the cerebral cortex and the pyramids of the medulla.
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